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Total power consumption of desktop setup (including display): 49.5 watts

Components: Intel 12700KF (stock) -- G.SKILL RIPJAWS @3600 CL18 (stock) -- Sapphire RX 7600 -- ASRock B760M-ITX/D4 WiFi -- fractal design DEFINE NANO S -- ARCTIC F14 (intake fan) -- Fractal Design Dynamic GP-14 (intake fan) -- RF120W (CPU fan) -- RF120W (exhaust fan) -- bequiet! SYSTEM POWER 10 550W -- DeepCool AG500BK ARGB (with custom fan) -- EVO 850 500GB
Software: OpenBSD -current, bspwm, sxhkd, feh (with bg-fill option), picom, Mesa open-source driver, Polybar, UFS file system
= 42.5 watts power consumption

Display: HP 24fh (set with very low brightness because otherwise I get eye problems with IPS screens)
= 7 watts power consumption

Energy consumption meter: QUIGG GT-PM-05

You are supposed to measure it via a reliable energy meter similar to my QUIGG GT-PM-05.
Please also mention the specs of your components, software and display.

  On 27/12/2024 at 21:08, neufuse said:

only if you use a dock 🤣

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I mean I did say:

What if I use a laptop and dock as my desktop, does that count?

😜

According to my no break, the main system in my sig (7900XTX and 5800X3D) it is 550W at full load (this also includes router, landline phone and NAS powered off). 
At idle, and listening to FLAC music with my SRSX88 speakers it is 140 W.

Idle: 23.5w (Desktop with Task Manager open)
Load: 60.1w (Playing Redout 2 with an Xbox One controller connected via Bluetooth)

This is an Lenovo ThinkCentre M75q Gen 2 mini PC, that is my day to day machine.

  • CPU: Ryzen 5 Pro 5650GE
  • RAM: 16gb DDR4 3200MHz
  • GPU: Integrated Radeon Vega 7
  • Storage: 256gb Samsung M.2 NVMe SSD (OS + apps) & 2TB 2.5" Western Digital Blue hard drive (additional storage for random data)
  • Monitor: 24" Dell U2412M
  • OS: Windows 11 Pro 24H2

The above power totals includes an 8 port Netgear switch and Logitech 2.1 speakers.

I measured the power draw of the Lenovo M75q Gen 2, Speakers (sleeping after not playing sound for a while) and Switch together, these were 10.5w idle, with the U2412M monitor measured separately drawing 12-13w, for a total of 23.5w idle.

Under load playing a game the Lenovo M75q Gen 2, Speakers and network switch used 47.1w + 13w for the monitor, totalling 60.1w.

Normal day to day usage will be somewhere in the middle of the idle and load totals.

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